Mindful Thoughts For Makers: Connecting Head, Heart, Hands

Mindful Thoughts For Makers: Connecting Head, Heart, Hands

Mindful Thoughts for Makers?xplores how the making process can be used as a tool for meditation, and not just a means to an end. Part of the Mindful Thoughts series, this lovingly illustrated little bookmuses on all aspects of making, including:MotivationExperimentingMaking mistakesMonotonyPerfectionismThe making communityThe environment. . . and many more Making can be much more than a business or hobby, it can be aspiritually enriching activity, slowing us down, andconnecting our hands to our heart. Textile artist Ellie Beck reveals, through25 focused reflections,?hy creating with our hands isuplifting, rewarding, and soothing for the mind, body, and soul. This book offers?eaningful insights to all makers from artists and bakers to tailors and woodworkers-the list is endless. If you like this, you might also be interested inMindful Thoughts for Cooks? . .About the AuthorEllie Beck is a textile artist, creative maker and teacher, finding inspiration in and from nature. She expresses her creative voice through botanical dyeing, loom weaving, slow-stitching, crochet, photography, creative writing, and basket weaving, and has taught her eco-conscious skills to?housands of students. Ellie lives a slow, simple and mindful life in the rainforest in Northern NSW, Australia, with her artist husband and three creative children. She blogs about slow creativity and living at Petalplum.com.au/Insta @petalplum